Best of our wild blogs: 4 Feb 15

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2 Feb (Sat): World Wetlands Day - Wetlands for our Future from wild shores of singapore Bukit Brown status - snapshot February 2015 fr...

URA seeks opportunities to develop underground space in Singapore

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Wong Siew Ying Channel NewsAsia 3 Feb 15; SINGAPORE: The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) is looking for more opportunities to develop...

Singapore as a garden, not a forest

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Christian Razukas, The Jakarta Post 2 Feb 15; A new book from NUS Press offers a compelling — and entertaining — view of Singapore’s envi...

In search of roadkill

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Carolyn Khew The Straits Times 3 Feb 15; NUS research assistant Mary-Ruth Low has been cruising along roads near forested areas on her mo...

Malaysia: Rising sea levels to lead to inundated coasts in future

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PATRICK LEE The Star 4 Feb 15; PETALING JAYA: If you thought that the devastating floods which struck the east coast of the peninsula rec...

Malaysia: Recent flooding is not likely to affect insurers - Fitch Ratings

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New Straits Times 3 Feb 15; KUALA LUMPUR: The recent heavy flooding in Malaysia is not expected to affect the country's insurers or e...

Indonesia: Conservationists v chainsaws -- the RSPB's battle to save the Harapan rainforest

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In 2007 an RSPB-led group bought up a series of logged-out Indonesian forests to bring them back from the brink. But in a country that’s los...

Vietnam: Upstream dams blamed for shrinking Mekong Delta

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Chi Nhan Thanh Nien News 3 Feb 15; HO CHI MINH CITY - Vietnam may lose 40 percent of the Mekong Delta to rising sea levels in the next ce...

World’s governments are failing on protected areas for nature

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IUCN 3 Feb 15; A new study has found that while governments are making progress in expanding Protected Area networks, these are failing ...

India looks set to harvest bumper wheat crop in 2015

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Mayank Bhardwaj Reuters Yahoo News 3 Feb 15; NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India looks likely to harvest a bumper wheat crop this year, its eight...

Birth control access key means of reaching climate goals: experts

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Laurie Goering PlanetArk 4 Feb 15; In Pakistan, where just a third of married women use contraception, half of all pregnancies - 4.2 mill...

Best of our wild blogs: 3 Feb 15

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Wed 11 Feb 2015 @ NUS LT34 – Debby Ng speaks about Himalayan Mutt Project! from Toddycats! Ever Wondered What Snail Embryos Looked Lik...